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16 quotes by Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy (born 1967) is a British screenwriter. Born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, he was educated at Malsis School in Cross Hills, Ermysted's Grammar School and Sedbergh School, he read English at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated from Arts University Bournemouth. In 1997 he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for The Full Monty. He went on to win the 2009 Academy Award for Best Adapted...
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As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes... →

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You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.

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I believe innately in the human spirit being a powerful and positive thing. And that just comes out, whether you like it or not. It comes out in the... →

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What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and... →

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I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

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India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

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You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe... →

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There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.

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I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go... →

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For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

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I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.

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I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

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In the midst of global recession, in the face of uncertainty about what's going to happen next, film looks for inspiration to real people.

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